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Home My WebLink AboutSD-200 (03 (d . 000- .1 NEW YORK STATE HISTORIC TRUST lWo ved STATEWIDE SURVEY OF HISTORIC SITES AND BUILDINGS 1. Name (Common and Historic) Southold Town Clerk's Office Location 2. Suffolk 3. Southold 4. County Town Village or City 5. Address or Location VAC444 Rd i VtWK4 S"►ti►e; OPP054i; Wtlls Fid. _. - scholastic 6. Type Greek Revival 7. Subject or Theme Religious 8. Date of Construction Mid 19th cent,. Architect (If Known) 10. Builder (if known) !+l, 6 $'vrvty 11. Original Owner lI 12. Original Use School or Church 13 . Present Owner T"„ l S,,}Ul Name Address 14. Present Use Town Clerles Office. 1S. Physical Condition Good 16. Surveys None 17 . Future Action None 18. Surveyed by R. Wiggins, Cuddebackville, N. Y. , March 68. Date Surveyed DSP-23 History and Significance: Site of Old Brick School, 1795• w f Presbyterian Chapel, 1895 School House. Present Town' s Clerks Office. Most early buildings in 6outhold are intelligently handled and are put to good use like this one. Sources of Information: Plaque. Photograph: Date Direction of View March b$. N. Map Location: GS Coordinates main - { o a. Y N T T a i FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. 1031D.t9W 75-7 SD 200 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES A LBA NY,NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAML. 'down of Southold/SPLIA DATE: April 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:516) 765-1892 Southold Z.I. , N.Y.11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAMF(Sy Town Clerk's Office Z. COUNTY:Sll 'ol k TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGF Southold 3. STREL'T LOCATION: rside 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public 0 h private ❑ 5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS: 6� USI:- Original: Town Clerk's Office� Present: 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c- brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ® g. stucco ❑ other: 17. STRUCTURAL a, wood frame with interlocking joints ME SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent L_j b. good M c. fair ❑ d- deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b, moved ® if so,when° from Main St. c. list major alterations and dates (if known): In 19I'om site of Town Hall east wing. SD RSM XXV-2 N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad 11. PHOTO: From north west 13. MAP: Front (north) and west elevation . .So thold,"A � • -•�� : X,21 r loop . : + • w • V` • • QN 4 . • \� - r Qt s � •• l. _ Nj1L ''t� • r • to ,.• .• SD 200 V4, THREA'I S TO BUILDING: a. none known Z) b. zoning El c. roads El d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: u. barn C] b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy 0 e. shed F-1 f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop 0 h. gardens 0 i. landscape features: j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ED b. woodland FX c. scattered buildings IN d.densely built-up 0 e. commercial F-1 f. industrial El g, residential ❑ h.other: opposite Railroad 1 17. INTI-RRIELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Travelers Street follows the railroad track on its south side. It is a back street of the village and is only partially developed. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 112-story, L-shaped Greek Revival structure with 3-bay ppdAmpntedgable projecting on east. Porch with square posts across three western bays. 9/9 windows in eastern section. 616 elsewhere. SIGNIFICANCE 11). DATF OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1844 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This landmark building is an important part of Southold' s history. 21. SOURCES: Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Society, 1960 No. 23 Joy Bear. Historic Houses of the North Fork and Shelter Island. Greenport. 1981. Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. 4 . � SD 200. 4 for his use 1836 by the Church. In the records Salter Storrs i Horton, Foster Sayre, Erastus Hallock and others figured in (24•) !!!! the cons ruction. In 1599 the four and two acres of land of this site were purchased for Church purposes by the inhabitants of the Town from Captain John Herbert (his homelot) but the acreage was not used by the Church for a parsonage until some years after the third (or fourth) church edifice was built in 1803. Former parsonages and homes of the pastors were located elsewhere in the village. r 23. THE OLD BRICK 'SCHOOL 1795 (Loca Reconstructed Clerk': Presbyterian Chapel 1870 (Soutl old Town Clerk's Office, Main Street, Southold) On June 22, 1794, "a company of Southold Citizens pro- posed tc erect a brick schoolhouse at such place near the Meetinghouse . . . .". Thus—the old record began. The cost ` was to be 80 to 140 pounds. F( The schoolhouse, 22 x 24 feet, had a gambrel roof, eight Hi windows, fireplace, iron stove, hand-hewn desks and log benches. The group of 27 citizens subscribing to 40 shares, SITE { was: Ezra L'Hommedieu, William Albertson, Hazard Moore, Col. Benjamin Horton, Major Gilbert Horton, John Gardiner, Lazarus, Moses and Joseph Cleveland, Jonathan and Giles Wells, James Overton, Jonathan Tuthill, Widow Elizabeth The fi Tuthill, Daniel and Zacheus Goldsmith, Richard Drake, James fort, cc Downs, Phineas Payne, John Franks, Thomas Hempstead,. (Locati Benjamin, James, William, Jonathan and Joseph Horton, nient n Joseph Hallock. Wines Osborn was the first teacher. Then Jerusha Miller, ' Thomas S. Lester, Mary Ann Goldsmith, John Farnsworth, 26. 1 and Austin VanScoy, who was a rugged disciplinarian. Os-" born's pay was 20 pounds and he provided wood, ink and quill pers. In 1816 the school district took over. In 1844, the building was reconstructed. In 1870 a new schoolhouse was (Mrs. built easterly in the village and the old schoolhouse was used as a Presbyterian Chapel until 1952 when it became the presen Town Clerk's Office. Th( is not c l 700's. _Guide to Historic Markers. The Southold Historical Society. 1960 Lazarus 26 The story of the building sketched here starts nearly two centuries ago. The property,then owned by William Horton, was advantageously located near the town's meeting house (known at that time as the First Church,Congregation 1111 or Society in Southold, and now as the ers recorded the event for newspapers. Southold Presbyterian Church). On De- and a motion picture was made to cember 3,1795,the lot was purchased by document the trip. When at last the Ezra L'Hommedieu, William Albertson historic old building arrived at its destirr, and 40 shareholders, for 50 shillings. ation,it was swung a little too far over t` ttt r They planned to erect a school on It. the railroad tracks as it made a final turn Soon a brick schoolhouse stood an the toward its waiting foundation. Al this i lot.From Town records,we know quite a moment a train appeared.We can safely bit about this schoolhouse. It cost be- assume the engineer could not believe his tween 80 and 100 pounds.It was 22 by 24 eyes. At the last crueurl moment the feet, with a gambrel roof and eight house was pulled away and delivered to windows. Students sat at hand-hewn its new site,minus only a few roof tiles- -- desks, upon log benches, and were Mrs.DiMaggio has a lifelong interest warmed by a fireplace and an iron stove, in preserving and restoring historic Teachers came and went. Wines Os- buildings. The DiMaggio family once born was the first. Out of his 20 pound owned and lived in the John Booth house ?r '� salary he provided ink, quill pens and on Oaklawn Avenue,Southold. firewood.Austin VanScoy,another early The purchase and restoration of his- teacher, became legendary for his dis- toric buildings is subject to many regula- ..r+ 'i cipline. tions.Mrs.DiMaggio plans to restore the In 1814 the little schoolhouse burned, building and to shingle the exterior.She will retain office space for herself and and was rebuilt as a one-story edifice. rent the balance of the building to In 1670 the Southold Presbyterian suitable tenants. Church, located across Main Road, 14 bought the schoolhouse from the Town, The R e d Brick and dedicated it as a chapel an July 14, 1671.In 1910s Sabbath School room and a h u e kitchen were added,and in 1938 a social room was built into the house. ScoolhoThe Town of Southold bought the property back on May 6,1952,for use as OD# of the teacher's the Town Clerk's office. Many people remember this building After the new Town Ball was built, 1 when it was the Southold Town Clerk's Loretta DiMsggio purchased this build- Salary he provided ink, uthold, 1795 office, and stood alone on Main Road, Apresent r °n efilocatio,on and moved it. its prem t len buil on Traveler Street.The i Southold.In 197!it became the east wing quill �ef1S and firewood Town then built the east wing to the rctta Dimaggio Of the new Southold Town Hall,only to be present Town Hall on the old school detached later and moved to its present property. location on Traveler Street, making room for Town Hall's new east wing that The hoose was moved on July 20,197& you see today. it was a dramatic occasion.Photograph- Joy Bear.HistoriC Houses of the North Fork and Shelter Island. 1981 51 �' t� N t� O